According to what is said on the back of the photographs are going to arrive in city top German the

The reason for writing this article was the mission of my relative some rare photos of the activities of the Bulgarian troops in Alexandroupolis the period 1941-1944. (Derived, as reported by the Bulgarian files). Some of them, along with the others already had in my collection that have been published in my book "Proktitor Polis", presented today with this article. Also noted that the reference to history and the events of that time did not run counter between the avascent group the two peoples existing today friendship and good neighborliness. - Theo Ordoumpozanis. In Alexandroupolis night of 6 to 7 April, 1941, and reached the battlefront news that the forts in Nymphaea and neck Echinou began to collapse and imminent German invasion, sailed into the harbor passenger ferry "ESPEROS" and , by order of the Government embarked on this all the city authorities (Metropolitan Joachim, Prefect Damian Moshonas, Mayor Altinalmazis, the Gendarmerie Commander Ebro, which also saw the completion of this mission, the staff of the Civil Service and a Passive air defense company that was based in Alexandroupoli) to be transferred to Samothrace and from there to a safe and free place in Greece, in view of the imminent entry of the Germans in the city. So on April 7, 1941, when German troops entered Alexandroupolis, saw a deserted town. There were no official authority to negotiate with them the tradition and occupation the avascent group of the city. The Germans temporarily appointed the avascent group as Prefect the avascent group of the german Pintzas and mayor Anastasios Konstantinos Saridi, known for its pro-German the avascent group sentiments. These two are who had the initiative of drafting a letter to Hitler by the committee of the people the avascent group of Alexandroupolis. (More at www.ordteo.gr As efparestite Alexandroupolis the avascent group Fuhrer")
Beautiful and desolate immortalized (left) to the city by the camera lens of the Bulgarian propaganda during the occupation. Clouds the avascent group of persecutions, hunger, misery, despair and even a refugee have spread over the occupied city. The beauties of the city (right) wanted to raise the Bulgarian occupation authorities issuing a large number of photos with captions in Bulgarian, in their attempt to show outwardly that the city is Bulgarian. The soul of the Greek inhabitants of the city were never able to immortalize. Absent in all their photos. Besides many townspeople had already gotten the famous old because the Bulgarian persecution, become refugees. On 21 April 1941, the Germans gave the administration of Thrace and Eastern Macedonia to the Bulgarians. From the third decade of April, with the permission of the Germans appeared first Bulgarian troops, while German forces since the beginning of the second ten days of May, began to partially evacuate the area, except the avascent group for a band here in Evros (from Feres by Didymoticho) which was under German occupation in which the Germans recognized the avascent group all public, municipal, community, police and judicial authorities and maintained. the avascent group For this reason, the region was called "buffer zone".
According to what is said on the back of the photographs are going to arrive in city top German the avascent group officers on 6 May 1942, which (left) inspects the Bulgarian troops the avascent group occupying the space in front of the District to the beach, while (right) honors Defile Bulgarian occupation troops in front of the current military club.
The j Bulgarians with their arrival, seized violently all public buildings in the city, expelled all remaining Greek officials and undertook the administration thereof. Followed by harsh possession as a result of which many residents forced to follow once again the path of exile. the avascent group Limnos, Thessaloniki, Volos, Athens and other cities that were out by the Bulgarian government, were the places where most refugees fled the city to avoid the new Bulgarian occupation. Those who remained here were harsh measures against the avascent group residents of the Bulgarian occupation authorities were mainly concern the full range of Bulgarization met. It should the avascent group be noted that the Evros is the first law that started the resistance against the invaders and wrote golden pages in the struggle of the Resistance.
Left: The celebration of the Resurrection of Easter 1942, in front of the old building of the Prefecture of the beach, where it was erected by the Bulgarian authorities special platform, upon which the distinguished Bulgarian Metropolitan the avascent group area and the priests around him. Visible in the background Faratsi the house and to the far left of the building the avascent group address. We